habitable planets

habitable planets

James Kasting, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, will present "4th Rock From The Sun: Exploring The Mysteries Of Mars," at 12:30 p.m. on April 10 at Schlow Centre Region Library as part of the Research Unplugged series.

Scientists should take the conservative approach when searching for habitable zones where life-sustaining planets might exist, according to James Kasting, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn State, including when building Terrestrial Planet Finders.

"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds." The Italian philosopher-astronomer Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for these words in the year 1600.